The .XXX sTLD is the first content-based domain extension that ICANN has entertained that has such levels of oversight and compliance and bloat that is just wrong on so many levels. .XXX has been herald by ICM Registry as a mechanism to protect children, but the irony is that .XXX will make it easier for children to find adult entertainment material. ICM Registry (the sponsor of the .XXX sTLD) has said that .XXX will help to open the namespace. It certainly will. Now there will sites like yellow.xxx that might be urine fetish site. Any child could easily put in a keyword and add .XXX to see what pops up. It’s like the joke about reading your fortune cookie and adding “in bed” to the end. How easy would it be for a child to type in any kind of simple keyword of phrase and add on “.xxx” and find porn. There is no .XXX blocking mechanism in place. Software and ISP filtering could be introduced, If .XXX is approved, but what would it block, a few number of .XXX domains. .XXX is voluntary, and those that have invested in their .COMS won’t be giving them up. .XXX is not about protecting children, it is about greed. The .XXX TLD was perceived to be one that represents the adult industry for their interest for their own namespace. The .XXX proposal has the sponsored TLD more broadly defined as: APPENDIX S PART 3. DESCRIPTION OF THE STLD COMMUNITY Subject to Registry Operator’s compliance with this Registry Agreement, including all attachments and appendices thereto (the “Agreement”) and any Temporary Specifications or Policies or Consensus Policy as defined in the Agreement, and provided the scope of the Charter is not exceeded: The TLD Community will consist of the responsible global online adult-entertainment community (“Community”), generally defined as: a. Those individuals, businesses, and entities that provide Adult Entertainment intended for consenting adults or for other community members (“Providers”), b. Organizations that represent Providers (“Representatives”), and c. Their vendors, service providers, and contractors (“Service Providers”). The term “Adult-Entertainment” is intended to be understood broadly for a global medium, to include those websites that convey Adult Entertainment, operated by webmasters who have voluntarily determined that a system of self-identification would be beneficial. Interested stakeholders, including individuals and entities concerned about child safety, free expression, and data privacy (“Other Stakeholders”) are not part of the sponsored community, but will play an important, formal role in the IFFOR policy development process. Registry Operator may modify and/or expand the description of the sTLD Community, consistent with the Agreement, to reflect change and development in the provision of online Adult Entertainment. This paragraph from ICM’s proposal means only those websites that want .XXX are defined as the community. Given the list of websites listed at http://www.FightTheDotXXX.com and the hundreds more who have posted up on ICANN’s public comment board, it is quite clear, that the definition that ICM has proposed to ICANN is a sham of a definition. If the adult entertainment industry wanted a .XXX TLD, then the individual companies who be flooding the ICANN message board in support of it. What you see is clearly the opposite. The Adult Entertainment community would support a .KIDS TLD that would truly be the best way to keep kids from any adult material.